Norwegian by Night, by Derek B. Miller

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Norwegian by Night is a stunningly good debut thriller, subtle and
moving, with a truly original hero. Sheldon Horowitz is a quarrelsome,
recently widowed 82-year-old New York Jew, flirting with dementia, compelled
to live in a soulless Oslo apartment block with his granddaughter, Rhea,
because there is no one left for him in the US. The woman in the upstairs
flat, from somewhere in the Balkans, is murdered and her eight-year-old son
takes refuge in Horowitz’s flat. Fearing the killer’s return, the old man
disappears with the traumatised child, neither able to speak the other’s
language. Their journey around Norway,